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Too Famous

The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious – Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting
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Too Famous compiles Michael Wolff's compelling columns from New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ, and The Hollywood Reporter, chronicling two decades of evolving fame culture. The book explores how personal attention transformed into a prized commodity and culminates with Donald Trump, who epitomises fame's extreme form. Through timely news moments, sharp character portraits, and insightful reflections, Wolff reveals that everyone featured is shaped by, and exists through, the media lens rather than their authentic selves.
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Ideal for readers interested in arts, culture, media studies, and contemporary politics, especially those fascinated by celebrity culture and its influence on society.

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Collected journalism from the number-one bestselling author of FIRE AND FURY

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Too Famous collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ, and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valuable commodities, and ends with Donald Trump, fame's most hyperbolic exponent.

Some of these pieces exist in the amber of a particular news moment, some as character portraitsβ€”colourful now as when they were writtenβ€”and some as lasting observations about human nature and folly. The common ground all of these thrilling stories share is that everyone in this book is a creature of, or creation of, the media. They don't exist as who we see them as, and who they want to be, without the media.

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Praised for its incisive critique of celebrity and power, Too Famous offers a startling look at the modern elite akin to Wolff's Fire and Fury (Irish Daily Mail). The book's sharp and devilish examination of figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon highlights the amoral boldness of its subjects, captivating readers with its fearless storytelling (Peter Conrad, Observer).

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349128535

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Little, Brown

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 416

About the Author

Michael Wolff is the author of nine books including Fire and Fury, the number-one bestseller that for the first time told the inside story of the Trump White House. He has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, the Hollywood Reporter, British GQ and other magazines and newspapers. He lives in Manhattan and has four children.

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